Quotes about cure
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“Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play. Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune. Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society’s ills can be cured through government alone.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

2013, Second Inaugural Address (January 2013)

Life, People

“You have in yourself the instrument of your cure.”

Emile Coué (1857–1926) French psychologist and pharmacist

Quoted in: Andy Robbins (2012) The Pillars of Prosperity, p. 129.

“Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Strong Opinions

On the ideas of Sigmund Freud, p. 66.
Strong Opinions (1973)

Parting

“A hundred and fifty years proved the cure to be necessary but not sufficient.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

2015, Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the 13th Amendment (December 2015)
Context: At its heart, the question of slavery was never simply about civil rights. It was about the meaning of America, the kind of country we wanted to be –- whether this nation might fulfill the call of its birth: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” that among those are life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. President Lincoln understood that if we were ever to fully realize that founding promise, it meant not just signing an Emancipation Proclamation, not just winning a war. It meant making the most powerful collective statement we can in our democracy: etching our values into our Constitution. He called it “a King’s cure for all the evils.” A hundred and fifty years proved the cure to be necessary but not sufficient. Progress proved halting, too often deferred. Newly freed slaves may have been liberated by the letter of the law, but their daily lives told another tale. They couldn’t vote. They couldn’t fill most occupations. They couldn’t protect themselves or their families from indignity or from violence. And so abolitionists and freedmen and women and radical Republicans kept cajoling and kept rabble-rousing, and within a few years of the war’s end at Appomattox, we passed two more amendments guaranteeing voting rights, birthright citizenship, equal protection under the law.

“Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.”

Seamus Heaney The Cure at Troy

"Doubletake", from The Cure at Troy (1990)
Poetry Quotes, The Cure at Troy
Context: History says don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
on the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.

“The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together, and it is only the last push, in which one or the other takes the lead.”

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist

The Crisis No. IV.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
Context: There is a mystery in the countenance of some causes, which we have not always present judgment enough to explain. It is distressing to see an enemy advancing into a country, but it is the only place in which we can beat them, and in which we have always beaten them, whenever they made the attempt. The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together, and it is only the last push, in which one or the other takes the lead.

Disease

“As one with a peripheral, marginal and off-centre existence in the world I would like to seek how — with what I hope is a modest decent and humanist contribution — I can be of some use in a cure and reconciliation of mankind.”

Kenzaburō Ōe (1935) Japanese author

Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself (1994)
Context: "The voice of a crying and dark soul" is beautiful, and his act of expressing it in music cures him of his dark sorrow in an act of recovery. Furthermore, his music has been accepted as one that cures and restores his contemporary listeners as well. Herein I find the grounds for believing in the exquisite healing power of art.
This belief of mine has not been fully proved. 'Weak person' though I am, with the aid of this unverifiable belief, I would like to "suffer dully all the wrongs" accumulated throughout the twentieth century as a result of the monstrous development of technology and transport. As one with a peripheral, marginal and off-centre existence in the world I would like to seek how — with what I hope is a modest decent and humanist contribution — I can be of some use in a cure and reconciliation of mankind.

World, Hope

“Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness.”

Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist

As quoted in Marriage Today : Problems, Issues, and Alternatives (1977) by James E. De Burger, p. 444
Variant: I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
As quoted in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations (1998) by Connie Robertson, p. 270
Context: Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human. Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, "This is me and the world be damned!" Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society — Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.

Life, Help, Personality

“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.”

Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher

This attribution to Voltaire appears in Strauss' Familiar Medical Quotations (1968), p. 394, and in publications as early as 1956 http://books.google.pt/books?id=lCtCAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Doctors+are+men+who+prescribe+medicine+of%22&dq=%22Doctors+are+men+who+prescribe+medicine+of%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=mbnWUsvDIfTB7Aaw_YD4Dw&redir_esc=y; the quotation in French does not, however, appear to be original, and is probably a relatively modern invention, only quoted in recent (21st century) published works, which attribute it to "Voltaire" without citing any source. Original: (fr) Les médecins administrent des médicaments dont ils savent très peu, à des malades dont ils savent moins, pour guérir des maladies dont ils ne savent rien.

Men, Disease

“I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.”

Indíra Gándhí (1917–1984) Indian politician and Prime Minister

Oriana Fallaci. Interview with Indira Gandhi in New Delhi, February 1972

“Cock-sure certainty is the source of much that is worst in our present world, and it is something of which the contemplation of history ought to cure us, not only or chiefly because there were wise men in the past, but because so much that was thought wisdom turned out to be folly – which suggests that much of our own supposed wisdom is no better. I do not mean to maintain that we should lapse into a lazy scepticism. We should hold our beliefs, and hold them strongly. Nothing great is achieved without passion, but underneath the passion there should always be that large impersonal survey which sets limits to actions that our passions inspire.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

History as an Art (1954), p. 9
1950s

History, Past, Passion, World

“This last summer, when I was on my way back to Vienna from the Appetite-Cure in the mountains, I fell over a cliff in the twilight, and broke some arms and legs and one thing or another, and by good luck was found by some peasants who had lost an ass, and they carried me to the nearest habitation, which was one of those large, low, thatch-roofed farm-houses, with apartments in the garret for the family, and a cunning little porch under the deep gable decorated with boxes of bright colored flowers and cats; on the ground floor a large and light sitting-room, separated from the milch-cattle apartment by a partition; and in the front yard rose stately and fine the wealth and pride of the house, the manure-pile. That sentence is Germanic, and shows that I am acquiring that sort of mastery of the art and spirit of the language which enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.”

Mark Twain Christian Science

Book I, Ch. 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3187/3187-h/3187-h.htm#link2H_4_0002 Christian Science (1907)

Family, Housing, Light, Mountain

“The stress which exists in the world today is a result of competition and fear, the fear of failure, disease, death, war, calamity, and economic disruption. The pressure that these fears put on humanity inevitably results in psychosomatic diseases. The cure lies in a re-establishing of equilibrium. When we establish equilibrium in our lives through a restructuring of our political, economic and social institutions, we will find that the health of humanity will improve dramatically. We will not have to spend enormous sums of money maintaining health. In fact, illness prevention will become the norm. Disease can generally be prevented more easily than it can be cured.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

Maitreya's Mission Vol. III (1997)

Money, War, Health, World

“Saying that something is too terrible to joke about is like saying that a disease is too terrible to try to cure it.”

Louis C.K. (1967) American comedian and actor

Charlie Rose interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-LCdcdShdY, 2016

Disease

“He discovered or described hundreds of afflictions and cures, and by testing remedies he concluded “Laughter is the best medicine””

Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) Uruguayan writer

As quoted in Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009), p. 64

Affliction, Laughter

“Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”

Karl Menninger (1893–1990) American psychiatrist

Love, People, love, Relationship

“If there is a cure to any disease, then why not a formula to become a genius?”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Disease

“There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Books, World

“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.”

Margaret George (1943) American writer

Source: Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles

Heartbreaking, Sad, Moving On, Sleep

“Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.”

Celia Rees (1949) English author

Source: Witch Child

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Love

“Sex pretty much cures everything.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Sex

“It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.”

Ted Dekker book Skin

Source: Skin

World

“Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)”

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

“We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

Love, Affliction, Suffering

“They say even death can't cure an idiot.
-Ririn”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Death

“A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Source: Golden: A Retelling of Rapunzel

“I was cured all right.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Way

“The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.”

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-British writer

Question

“Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure.”

Ross Macdonald book The Drowning Pool

The Moving Target (1949)
Source: The Drowning Pool

“The only cure for a real hangover is death.”

Robert Benchley (1889–1945) American comedian

"Coffee Versus Gin", My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (1936)

Death

“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Mr. Lockwood (Ch. III).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)

Pleasure, Country

“We name us and then we are lost, tamed
I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness”

Alice Notley (1945) American poet

Source: Mysteries of Small Houses

“Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.”

Matt Haig (1975) British writer

Source: The Humans

Truth, Beauty, Reading

“Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death… before they breed more hemophiliacs.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

Death

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

1910s, A Treatise on Parents and Children (1910)
Context: The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.

Secret, Happiness

“In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.”

Eve Ensler book The Vagina Monologues

Source: The Vagina Monologues

Girl

“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.”

Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses

“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

Thinking, Help

“The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.”

Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth

Women, Change, Dependency

“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

"War Shrines"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

Birthday, Death, Birth

“And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Love, Color, Feeling

“Perspective is the cure for depression.”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

“So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
And cures and healing wells.”

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

Hope, Revenge, Change, Sea

“Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Heartbreaking, Heart

“In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments..”

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (1968) Canadian writer

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Women

“We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

Anger

“Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus https://books.google.com/books?id=xvv4HcYdxd0C&pg=PA42&dq=%22Those+who+have+the+disease+called+Jesus+will+never+be+cured.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9_f7L-JTkAhXJ1VkKHfSGDHUQ6AEwAXoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Those%20who%20have%20the%20disease%20called%20Jesus%20will%20never%20be%20cured.%22&f=false (1986), p. 42 1980s Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Disease

“Is it a wart?" said Malcolm. "I can cure that, but it'll cost you."

"Why does everyone always think it's a wart?”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Thinking

“Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

“The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”

Marge Piercy (1936) American novelist and poet

Love

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Depressing

“It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Disease, School

“To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable.”

Robin Hobb (1952) American fiction writer (pseudonym)

Source: Golden Fool

Loneliness

“… there was no spell to cure a broken heart that did not also destroy that heart's capacity for love forever.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Midnight Heir

Love, Heart

“There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.”

Arthur C. Clarke book Childhood's End

Guardian Angel, p. 220
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)
Source: Childhood's End

Time, Men, Evil

“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”

Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States

“I know nothing of god or the devil. I have never learned a secret nor found a cure that would damn or save my soul.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

God, Secret, Soul, Learning

“Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Sex, Way, Sense

“I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.”

Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker

Perfection

“I'm going to be here until I'm cured?"
"Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed".”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Life

“One school of thought says that the best way to handle an issue like this is exposure therapy," Mad Rogan said. "For example, if you're terrified of snakes, repeated handling of them will cure it."
Aha. "I'm not handling your snake.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

School, Way, Madness

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

Hope, Selfishness

“Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From evils which never arrived!”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Borrowing From the French http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20649&c=323 1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)

Evil, Hurt

“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 2

“Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility”

Naomi Novik book His Majesty's Dragon

Source: His Majesty's Dragon

Thinking, Heart, Tea, Cry

“I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?"
"Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple."
"But… you did something nice. Why?"
He raised and eyebrow. "I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven't you noticed?”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Madness

“Smoking cures weight problems, eventually.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Problem

“That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.”

Marguerite Duras book The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Source: The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Sadness, Passion

“If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.”

Alan Dean Foster (1946) American fiction writer

Feeling

“The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Love, Travel, Drink, Sleep

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge —
That myth is more potent than history.
I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts —
That hope always triumphs over experience —
That laughter is the only cure for grief.
And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

"Credo" at his official website http://robertfulghum.com/index.php/fulghumweb/credo/; this may be partly influenced by remarks of Albert Einstein in "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck" The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929): I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Love, Death, Dreams, Hope

“In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkdeath

Love

“Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

Sadness

“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part II

Death, Disease

“The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Idea

“everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure”

Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

Feeling, Courage, Evil

“I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.”

Scott Westerfeld book The Last Days

Source: The Last Days

People, Home

“Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.”

Elizabeth Berg (1948) American novelist

Source: The Year of Pleasures

Disease

“I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Thinking, Fight, Happiness

“The cure for loneliness is solitude.”

Marianne Moore (1887–1972) American poet and writer

Source: Complete Prose of Marianne Moore

Solitude, Loneliness

“The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.”

Mircea Eliade book Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

Source: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”

John Glenn (1921–2016) American astronaut and politician

Birthday, Birthday

“I'm delirious," said Howl. "Spots are crawling before my eyes."
"Those are spiders," said Sophie. "Why can't you cure yourself with a spell?"
"Because there is no cure for a cold," Howl said dolefully.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

Sleep

“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

My Religion / Light in My Darkness, Ch 6 (1927)
Context: Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere … they will say that science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.

Science, Evil